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Let's face it - the anime depicts legends poorly as a general rule of thumb. And while this was probably deserving of an additional episode and you can cry all day about the Regi releases of Regigigas' apparent healing power (I'll get to that one later), I can't say I was too disappointed with this one.

The opening minutes were completely awesome, from the almost movie-esque battle against the Battle Pyramid itself to J dauntingly walking up to Regigigas' shrine and going batshit on it with Salamence, totally disregarding anything the gang had to say. Much of this episode felt like a movie, actually. You know, the movie that Regigigas actually deserved (sorry, Shaymin). And you know I just loved Regigigas doing the boogie with random Hyper Beams once being awakened. He hasn't boogied for centuries; give the guy a freaking break!

Manipulating the smaller Regis' power was a nice touch, and speaking of the mutating bowling ball that is Regigigas and its power, I'm not annoyed about his revival abilities. After all, did he not create and mold Regirock, Regice, and Registeel and give them life? Regigigas gave life to inanimate objects, people. The Platinum Dex entry basically spells it out. Also loved Brock's scheme for breaking out of String Shot. One of the most clever uses of Croagunk.

I loved Brandon getting emotional over his fallen Regis. It's something you don't expect from a character who was previously portrayed as totally no-nonsense. It was very dramatic and you can tell how much freaking guts the guy has for leaping straight into J's beam. The slow motion effect as he fell into Regigigas' hands really added a lot, methinks. And we finally have evidence that J's beam is, indeed, breakable, rendering her totally powerless. I still hope we get an all-out battle with J's Pokemon one of these days, however.

Let's face it, folks - we aren't gonna be seeing Jindai after this. We were lucky enough to get him again in the first place, and I'm glad the writers chose to have him go out with a bang. I still stand by my statement that he's the strongest trainer we've seen in this series aside from perhaps the regional champions, and he was treated well in the anime.

J has yet to disappoint with her sheer heartlessness, and I give major props to the writers for never watering her down once. From sacrificing her own men to burning down a forest to turning Jindai to stone and leaving him there, she is the outright raw villain that this series somehow thrived without for so long. I'm also very glad they gave her to Iwane. And the BGM? Oh, how I pity you dub viewers with this one. Heavily Movie 7-based.

All in all, this episode had enough action to be spread out over an additional episode, so the ending was a little rushed, but regardless of whether you're upset about Brandon's releases (seriously, folks, we'll never see him again), I highly enjoyed this. Not only was this far better than Regigigas' Movie 11 role, but the action here was movie-quality anyways, which has basically become the standard for J episodes. We hadn't seen her in quite some time, and apparently her role with Galactic is still up in the air, as I didn't hear (i.e. understand) anything from her about it.

Amazing episode and the animation made it even better. I wish we could see J with more pokemon, not just the same 3.

I’m not bothered with Brandon leaving his Regis because he wasn’t a main character in the first place. It’s not a release that is going to affect the anime in the long run. It’s a good closure to Brandon.

I was excited to see we don’t have more armies or Golbats or Crobats, it gets old. Nice to see Metang there, Skarmory appears a lot but it didn’t bother me.

And we finally have evidence that J's beam is, indeed, breakable, rendering her totally powerless. I still hope we get an all-out battle with J's Pokemon one of these days, however.

The question is, how does one truely stop her, I mean her Salamance took two Zap Cannons and one Flash Cannon at the same time, hardly showing any signs of pain and then only seemed hurt when it's dragon pulse got knocked back at it.

In my opinion thier gonna need a champion trainer like Lance or Cynthia to finally take her down.

J has yet to disappoint with her sheer heartlessness, and I give major props to the writers for never watering her down once. From sacrificing her own men to burning down a forest to turning Jindai to stone and leaving him there, she is the outright raw villain that this series somehow thrived without for so long.

Personally i'm getting annoyed by her now, i mean sure she's probably the best villian in the series, but she's only an independant force at best, if she had a full fledged team backing her, it wouldn't annoy me how strong they portray her, but she's abit too strong for an independant faction's leader, to be able to go against four legendary pokemon and come out with hardly any damage is insane, yes her device got broken, but she's probably got others in reserve.

Brandon may not appear in the anime ever again after this, and he's not a main character.

Being angry when Ambipom left is one thing, but this doesn't matter.

Anything to complain, right?

Originally Posted by Electivirus

Sweet zombie Jesus, you people complain about everything. There was plot outside the last few minutes, you know. :/

In any case, I'm surprised that J wasn't captured this time. At least her (stone-maker?) was finally broken.

Aaaaaand Iwane wins again.

Originally Posted by S.Suikun

This was way better than Darkrai vs. Cresselia.

Let's face it - the anime depicts legends poorly as a general rule of thumb. And while this was probably deserving of an additional episode and you can cry all day about the Regi releases of Regigigas' apparent healing power (I'll get to that one later), I can't say I was too disappointed with this one.

The opening minutes were completely awesome, from the almost movie-esque battle against the Battle Pyramid itself to J dauntingly walking up to Regigigas' shrine and going batshit on it with Salamence, totally disregarding anything the gang had to say. Much of this episode felt like a movie, actually. You know, the movie that Regigigas actually deserved (sorry, Shaymin). And you know I just loved Regigigas doing the boogie with random Hyper Beams once being awakened. He hasn't boogied for centuries; give the guy a freaking break!

Manipulating the smaller Regis' power was a nice touch, and speaking of the mutating bowling ball that is Regigigas and its power, I'm not annoyed about his revival abilities. After all, did he not create and mold Regirock, Regice, and Registeel and give them life? Regigigas gave life to inanimate objects, people. The Platinum Dex entry basically spells it out. Also loved Brock's scheme for breaking out of String Shot. One of the most clever uses of Croagunk.

I loved Brandon getting emotional over his fallen Regis. It's something you don't expect from a character who was previously portrayed as totally no-nonsense. It was very dramatic and you can tell how much freaking guts the guy has for leaping straight into J's beam. The slow motion effect as he fell into Regigigas' hands really added a lot, methinks. And we finally have evidence that J's beam is, indeed, breakable, rendering her totally powerless. I still hope we get an all-out battle with J's Pokemon one of these days, however.

Let's face it, folks - we aren't gonna be seeing Jindai after this. We were lucky enough to get him again in the first place, and I'm glad the writers chose to have him go out with a bang. I still stand by my statement that he's the strongest trainer we've seen in this series aside from perhaps the regional champions, and he was treated well in the anime.

J has yet to disappoint with her sheer heartlessness, and I give major props to the writers for never watering her down once. From sacrificing her own men to burning down a forest to turning Jindai to stone and leaving him there, she is the outright raw villain that this series somehow thrived without for so long. I'm also very glad they gave her to Iwane. And the BGM? Oh, how I pity you dub viewers with this one. Heavily Movie 7-based.

All in all, this episode had enough action to be spread out over an additional episode, so the ending was a little rushed, but regardless of whether you're upset about Brandon's releases (seriously, folks, we'll never see him again), I highly enjoyed this. Not only was this far better than Regigigas' Movie 11 role, but the action here was movie-quality anyways, which has basically become the standard for J episodes. We hadn't seen her in quite some time, and apparently her role with Galactic is still up in the air, as I didn't hear (i.e. understand) anything from her about it.

My thoughts exactly.

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Well, it's certainly going to be fun trying to adapt my story into all of this considering the Regis were a rather focal point there - that's really my only complaint about Brandon leaving his Regis behind. It forces me to find a way to work around this in the future. XD Still, there's a lot of stuff that just seems vague... like was it not insinuated that there are different sets of the three Regis? There was that backstory for Regigigas that involved the trio, but unless I'm mistaken, that was all taking place in Sinnoh while it's pretty much a given that Brandon caught his in Kanto. Then there's the ones that appear in Movie 8, and then it just gets really really weird...

I'd personally love it if Brandon appeared with Palmer whenever his time comes because I'd love to see those two be canonly close buddies, but that's all but a pipe dream too, I guess. If he appeared with all the Birds, though, I'd really LOL. Ahh... too many ifs.

At least they totally made up for the pathetic Regigigas representation in Movie 11 by making it go nuts in this episode. Really, that was freakin' exciting. Gigas is THE MAN. I loved Brock's genius move here - really makes me love his character all the more when he's willing to get Handbanana'd by Croagunk to set everyone free. ♥

But what frustrates me is that so many people missed this episode today, and since I don't understand a lick of Japanese, I'm left wondering what the heck is being insinuated in certain scenes. Like did Brandon really imply he'd come back for his Regis later? I thought that might've been the case. That "mirai" stuck out to me. Not that we'd see this on-screen or anything, but whatever gives me a little hope, you know.

-sigh- People here who are complaining about Brandon releasing his 3 Regis have completely missed the whole ordeal of the episode... It's not like we'll be seeing him again. Many reviewers here are saying that it "ruined the whole episode". I completely disagree with that. This episode deserved a 10/10 for the quality of the writing and... everything about it!

For once, it was Brock who found a way to set everyone free. (yay!:P) I thought Dawn's reactions were hilarious. XP

The way the Regis sacrificed themselves for their "king" was touching, really. When they jumped in front of Regigigas to protect him, I thought that was really sweet. Especially when Regigigas caught Brandon when he was turned to stone.

J's role in the episode was wonderful and to be expected in it. She was a real villain here. :P She practically made the ep's plot.

I fully enjoyed this ep to it's full potential. That's why I gave it a 10/10. I don't really care that Brandon let go his Regis. It makes sense, kinda. He probably realized how much it means for the Regis to make sure that Regigigas was safe at all times. He put his Pokemon's feelings in front of his own and let them protect their "king". I thought that was nice, too. (:

This episode was good! I'm not concerned about the 3 regi's because if we go back to Johto, they might hhave Brandon capture Suicune, Entie, and Raikou! Seriously! If we don't see him again Oh well! Although, I'm sure Paul would have done fairly good if they battled AFTER this episode.

well I think brandon will come back for the regi's
anyway, I'm still ****** of now that the uploaders in youtube upload this episodes not in HD it's really frustrating really and it's also bothering? anyone bothered?

I thought this episode was really well done. It was great to see J again though I really do wonder how Ash and co are honestly gonna take her Salemance down when it comes to the time that they finally beat her if the thing could take all 4 Regi's at once and come out almost unphased.

It was great to see a new army of pokemon attacking, this time being Metang and Skarmory though it was kinda annoying seeing Piplup taking down an army of Metang. I mean Pikachu I can understand taking down the Skarmory, but come on, now they're getting ridiculous with Piplups strength. What next, it goes toe to toe with Entai when they go to Johto?

It was a nice touch at the end for Brandon to release his Regis to protect Regigigis. After all, you gotta remember, he's still gonna be a powerful trainer without them, after all he beat the Regis at some point with his pokemon to catch them to begin with

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It was great to see a new army of pokemon attacking, this time being Metang and Skarmory though it was kinda annoying seeing Piplup taking down an army of Metang. I mean Pikachu I can understand taking down the Skarmory, but come on, now they're getting ridiculous with Piplups strength. What next, it goes toe to toe with Entai when they go to Johto?

Haha, I thought the same thing. Piplup's bubblebeam holding off about 50 Metang was pretty ridiculous...but Pikachu shocking all the Skarmory kinda made sense.

Anyway very good episode with a slightly rushed conclusion. J seems to awkwardly give up what she's doing toward the end and just retreat, but I suppose that's better than seeing her defeated considering she's still going to appear.

Regigigas' hyper beam vs. Salamence's dragon pulse ended in a draw. When Piplup and Piplup tried to stop that next dragon pulse I was thinking it would also end in a draw, leading us to believe that the two screenhogs are just as strong as the legendary giant. I was actually surprised to see that even the combined strength of the two mascots couldn't defend against J's Salamences' dragon pulse.

This episode had some epic action scenes. J took quite a beating and just kept coming back.

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Excellent episode. I do love when J appears. She's such an incredible character, and her strength is amazing. Her Salamence is even more powerful than I initially gave it credit for. I'd imagine she's been in the business a long time and has ample amount of experience with dealing with minor annoyances.

I could really feel for her after all those failures to capture Regigigas. One, two, three, FOUR?! If this were a mature show, she certainly would have had a few choice words to say.

Animation was excellent, only flaws were Piplup taking down so many Metang and the somewhat rushed ending. Hyper Beam spam was amusing.

Yo, this episode was HOT!!! Hunter J was owning everybody in this episode, even Brandon w/ his 3 Regis. I was like "Wow, this chick rocks". I like how she brought down Brandon's flying pyramid w/ all those Metangs & Skarmonys. Too bad neither J or Brandon didn't catch Regigigas.